Monthly Archives: April 2013
Verizon Wireless Made Discreet Bid for Clearwire Spectrum: Report
Verizon Wireless is the "strategic buyer" that this month made a discreet bid to acquire up to $1.5 billion worth of Clearwire spectrum, The...
Datto Alto Backup and Disaster Recovery Aimed at Small Businesses
Backup, disaster recovery (BDR) and intelligent business continuity (IBC) solutions specialist Datto announced the release of Alto, an on- and off-site backup and disaster...
Dish Network, Verizon Bidding for Pieces of Sprint: 10 Reason Why
There’s big news today in the wireless industry. On one hand, there’s Verizon Wireless, which is reportedly willing to pay $1.5 billion to lease...
Mobile App Development Requires Hybrid Approach: Gartner
As businesses turn towards mobile devices and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives to boost worker productivity, hybrid applications, which offer a balance between HTML5-based Web apps...
Google Reaches Antitrust Agreement With EC: Report
Google has proposed an antitrust settlement with the European Commission that apparently satisfies the European regulators and that will help bring about the end...
Dish Network $25B Bid Aims to Grab Sprint From SoftBank’s Embrace
In a series of offers that grows more complex and more perplexing with time, Sprint Nextel now finds itself the most sought-after company in...
WordPress Sites Under Massive Password-Guessing Attack
As a popular way to create blogs, news portals and corporate sites, the WordPress content-management software is naturally a focus of attackers. But attackers...
Android Push-to-Talk App to Aid Alabama First Responders
Mobile County, Ala., has found a way for emergency responders and public safety officers to bridge the communications of land mobile radio and cellular...
Microsoft Gives Smartwatches Another Try
Pebble, one of biggest crowd-funding successes on Kickstarter, helped catapult wearable IT back into the limelight last year. Now, Microsoft is reportedly eyeing a...
Dish Network Dishes Out $25.5 Billion Bid for Sprint Nextel
Who knew that satellite television hardware and services provider Dish Network would have both the money and the chutzpah to bid $25.5 billion to...